# ISO/IEC 40500:2012 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards

For ISO/IEC 40500:2012, item title is Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC 40500:2025; withdrawn / published date is 2012-10-12, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Identifier:** ISO/IEC 40500:2012 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Item title:** Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Successor:** ISO/IEC 40500:2025
- **Withdrawn / published date:** 2012-10-12 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 58625,IS,,ISO/IEC 40500:2012,Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0,Technologies de l'information — Règles pour l'accessibilité des contenus Web (WCAG) 2.0,2012-10-12,1,['35.080'],ISO/IEC JTC 1,9599,,[91029],['en'],2,"<p>ISO/IEC 40500:2012 [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0] covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photo-sensitivity and combinations of these

## Source

- https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv

Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01.
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